nancy pelosi and charlie rangel.e into power and she said she's going to drain the swamp of the corruption in washington. >> right. >> charlie rangel in today's "washington post," sorry, charlie, charlie rangel must go. the speak her of the house must release him of his chairmanship duties. he is tax cheat and yet he is responsible for writing the tax laws of the united states of america. i don't care if you are a liberal or conservative. you are not bothered by that? >> no, i am not because nancy pelosi called for an ethics committee investigation of him and as an american, until you are proven guilty, no i am not bothered. >> we are not talking about criminal action. we are talk being the chairmanship of a committee. you don't think that the appearance of impropriety has been so stark when it comes to charlie rangel that this should indicate that he is no longer fit for the office of chairmanship at the very least. you think what he has done is ok? >> i am saying we need to wait for results, to see what -- >> did y

neil: you are talking about charlie rangel. >> charlie rangel, i'm sorry. neil: we will watch this closely. thank you very much. >> i will not sign a bill that adds a dime to our deficits, either now or in the future. neil: ok, so it will not add to the deficit. president repeating that today, at the same time the treasury secretary says the president is already committed to no middle- class tax hike. the ceo of the investment firms was america joins us now. he says the numbers do not add up. you said that even if you were to virtually take all the income of the well-to-do, the top 1%, for example, it would not cover this. so then what? >> i may not be smarter than a fifth grader, but i do have a basic grasp on third grade arithmetic. we are going to spend $1.6 trillion more this year than we are going to spend -- bring in in revenues. we have to bring in revenue from somewhere or continue to borrow money, and i think it is pretty basic for the average american citizen. that is why the headline in the "wall street journal" said geiger promises lower deficit

charlie rangel shipping is taxes, first of all, he is a politician in citing race -- charlie rangel should pay his taxes. neil: these uprisings in california is what we are looking at, and that is what nancy pelosi says this kind of stuff leads to. do you agree? >> i think if they keep fanning the flames, it is a possibility, and what does this say for our children? they are looking at people saying these things. i think there was an incident that happened in st. louis where black and white kids were fighting on a school bus. you have these politicians that are inciting give for a judgment, and bad outcomes could happen -- in citing -- inciting gfofor judgment. neil: i want you to listen to this. >> clearly, there is a hint of racism in some of the opposition to president obama. that is crystal clear. neil: is it crystal clear to you? >> absolutely not. it is crystal clear that they are using the race card to incite more violence and racial tension. the american people are concerned about big government and big government policies, and president obama going into the white house, if people

the five democrat members on the ethics committee have received major campaign donations from charlie rangel. we ask why speaker pelosi hasn't taken a hand in this. we found out 119 house democrats have been given money by mr. rangel for their next campaign. so he's a source of funds for this -- the majority party. and that may be it, but we don't know. you know what, what this is all about is i am sick and tired of everybody being lumped together as evil people in this house. and therefore justice delayed is justice denied. is the time we address some of these issues. i am joined by my friend from -- who is a classmate of mine, he will talk -- he is one of the stars of this floor because when he speaks, he speaks from the heart. mr. king, tell us what you got to say, i yield you what time you may need. mr. king: i thank the gentleman, the judge from texas, judge carter, for your leadership on this issue. i know it's hard for a lot of members to come down to the floor and raise an issue that has to do with the ethics of any other member. whatever party they might do, if they are democrat or

charlie rangel warranwarned that they mt provide competition to private insurers. >> i believe a publicplan is the best way to do that. >> but the inclusion of a public plan is is seemingly more and more remote. >> medicare benefits would not be cut to finance health-care reform, but medicare waste would be cut instead. he also argued in favor of a public plan, but has not called a deal breaker. >> the president will also bring his push for health-care reform to college this week. he will speak at a rally at a -- at the comcast center at the university of maryland. doors open at 9 a.m. admission is first-come, first-served. security screening will be in place, so no backs, sharp objects, liquids, strollers or signs. >> pg&e may actually be closer to a peaceful resolution tonight with a new pilot program aimed to end the need for clear- cutting. the once controversial clearcutting now appears that given way to a potential long- term solution. >> b.g.e. comes into conflict with communities all over the greater baltimore area about how it cuts down trees are brown apparel lines. now they a

as a result you have introduced the charlie rangel rule. what is that? he should not get special treatment because he is a member of congress or because he is a chairman of the ways and means committee. he should be treated like everyone else. if that is the standard that the irs is going to set, all americans should be treated the same way. therefore, i say that if you owe penalties, the way it is now, they will exercise the same rule on your tax return. you should beach rape -- treated the same way as charlie rangel. megyn: any takers for that one? >> a few. it will not get through, but the survey puts sunlight on an issue that is important to the american people. democrats are saying forget about charlie rangel, this is about decorum and behavior on the house floor and that joe wilson clearly violated decorum with this outburst. which i think everyone can agree on. why not just have them say that we will not stand for that? that it is appropriate? >> they did not say to forget charlie rangel, they simply do not address it. they act like it does not --

we were just talking about charlie rangel.e lot of money. i am just curious. i could not go on vacation to the caribbean. charlie buys places in the caribbean. do you do that? did you buy places in the caribbean? >> and then forget to report a million? >> no, i did not do that. >> you did not, like, buy things in the caribbean and rent them out. >> i owned a home in my district, and then i rented a place in washington. >> that makes sense. >> you didn't have four apartments in manhattan. >> no. >> how about a brownstone in brooklyn? >> i did not have one of those. >> what is bank accounts -- >> all right, joe, i think we made our points. >> i did not have one of those either. >> what about a sweet deal with the apollo? >> i did not have one of those either. >> you got it down. he has testified before. don't give them nothing! >> i live in my office in washington, d.c. i had my house in florida. >> are we done? >> yes. >> good. good. that's a back way to cover it. >> how do you live like that? willie has been asking. i don't kn

wilson will have to get in line behind nancy pelosi who insulted the intelligence community, charlie rangel who cheated on his taxes, jack mur, that a walking scandal, and we all know how the democratic leadership tried to protect william jefferson. jefferson was the member who had $90,000 in cash in his freezer. democrats don't want an apology, the statement continued, they want a sideshow, something to shift the focus away from their government-run experiment on healthcare, so, now, bret, the joe wilson incident is over but his outburst on illegal immigration made an impact. senators are trying to fix the very issue that he was trying to call attention to. bret. bret: jim, thank you. well, the issue of race has come up repeatedly in the weeks since wilson shouted out his accusation, but correspondent james rosen reports, it's a topic that has been in the public conversation for some time now. the race card started flying when new york governor david paterson claimed in a radio interview last month that he and other prominent african-american politicians are being judged by the color of th

but what about charlie rangel? why aren't democrats going after charlie rangel?ng from the road using a mifi-- a mobile hotspot that provides up to five shared wi-fi connections. two are downloading the final final revised final presentation. - one just got an email. - woman: what?! hmph. it's being revised again. the copilot is on mapquest. and tom is streaming meeting psych-up music - from meltedmetal.com. - ( heavy metal music playing ) that's happening now with the new mifi from sprint-- the mobile hotspot that fits in your pocket. sprint. the now network. deaf, hard-of-hearing, and people with speech disabilities access www.sprintrelay.com. brian: the obama administration scrapping parts of a plan for a missile defense system in europe. the czech republic and in poll land. peter: the original system was proposed by the bush administration. it included fixed sites in poland and the czech republic you see there and was set up to defend against an attack from iran. president obama insists this new strategy is better for america. >> new missile defense architect

charlie rangel has a love story of his own. here is a guy who has forgotten to pay taxes on more money than you make in a lifetime at $2.4 million, he just forgot, oh, my gosh, i forgot about that $2.4 million. how about john conyers? he had personal aides working on his wife's election campaign. his wife, you got to remember ler, monica conyers. oh, she is so great. she was just convicted back in june on federal bribery charges in a sludge hauling scandal. i love those sludge handling scandals. can i ask you a question -- has the swine flu already hit and killed most of the population and i'm just not aware of it? i mean, that's a possible terrorism i have been watching the news on other channels, so maybe that happened and nobody is reporting on it. i just can't figure it out. if the swine flu thing didn't happen and wipe out most of the population, why are we so low on citizens that we can't find people to serve that haven't been in jail? i don't know. and then murtha, of course, he's got the airport thing. he's also linked

am i a racist -- democrats, for the love of god, it's charlie rangel! when are you going to step up and say how do you do a full investigation into a mortgage scandal on chris dodd when you don't even subpoena the mortgage records involved the sweetheart deal from the banks? for the love of pete! how can you make a decision when you don't have any evidence! that is almost as ridiculous as saying, i'm going to side with the college professor. ii don't know any details about anything but the police officer was wrong. that's ridiculous. by the way, am i a racist to ask that question about chris dodd, who's white? it's ridiculous. there is no credibility in any of this stuff. if a harvard professor was arrested are and the president said he didn't have all the facts, can we ask more questions here? no, no, no. we've got bigger sphish to fry. we got steroids in baseball, we got to investigate that. the nfl patriots cheating standard, we ought to spend more time looking at trees and sports scanning dahls! why -- sports scandals. why is it? it's racism, i tell

we can say that charlie rangel, democrats brushed his tax issues away and said let's not talk about that. you need to look at the speech and topic at hand which was health care. >> all right. joe? >> look, wilson has brought a problem on himself which is that now the constituents in his district in south carolina will have a better opportunity to judge whether he's fit to serve in congress anymore because his opponent has raised a lot of money overnight having $16,000 in the bank before and now is closing in on half a million. may be able to be a competitive candidate and that's the way it should be. >> go ahead, keith. >> the problem was he did apologize but he repeated the thing that we now know is untrue. fact check has looked at this. illegal immigrants would not be covered. it can't be clearer. >> let's go to the substance of this. go ahead, ron. >> that's not true at all. if luke at the congressional budget office that said there is not a specific provision in there that says that illegal aliens could not be covered. what republicans have tried to do and what republicans were voted

host: what is the status on charlie rangel?bviously one of the issues that members have pointed to in the debate on the floor, democratic members with their own problems. guest: you would actually hear republicans talking about that in hushed tones. there was a handful of new york democrats that decided to vote against the resolution, could that be because at some point a charlie rangel resolution could come down? and they want some leeway? the situation with charlie rangel just hangs in the future. the way that it will come down is not clear at this point. host: little rock, next caller. caller: the reason i feel that he should be reprimanded is because there have been people who have done even less that that. people coming with t-shirts, making statements, holding up signs, and they have been ordered out and taken out. i mean, if he does what he does and the american people come in with teachers on, holding up signs and they are escorted out, he should be as well. if he can do it, why can they not do it? guest: clearly, there

corruption is the sickness that in fests our nation and it is the cancer, charlie rangel refusing to answer tax problem questions. chris dodd on the countrywide thing, barney frank mail prostitution, fannie mae scandals and nobody is looking into it and william jefferson bribes and duke cunningham and other g.o.p.ers, our government is preparing for a potential crisis that we have been hearing about now a lot, the swine flu. let me show you something, gave me an idea, come with me for a second. bring up the maps, this is the map are looking at in the bowels of the white house and the president and says, okay here's the situation, casualty, it will be, rising and critical and will be real trouble. and they'll show you how that disease spreads. all over with the swine flu and hunter, start it from the beginning now, the swine flu, start from the beginning, i want to do -- not do the swine flu, from the very beginning, please. take the program to the very beginning. restart it. okay. here it is. don't think the swine flu. because the swine flu, what they want to do, is they want kwaurn

you've said there are people you want to hit on the head with a shovel, including congressman charlie rangel i guess the question is do you ever feel like that crosses a line? are you... do you feel like that's part of your show business side? your sort of rodeo cowboy side? >> i am... have you asked jon stewart this question? i tamm other end of the spectrum. >> couric: do you consider yourself more like jon stewart than, say, a journalist? >> i consider myself... i'm not an a journalist. i'm an opinion guy. >> couric: and there are plenty of opinions about him. for his followers, he's an escape valve for their simmering anger and disillusionment. for his detractors, he's fanning the flames of ignorance and rage. but for now, people can agree on this: he's the most talked about talker around. glenn beck's new book "arguing with idiots" is published by simon & schuster which is owned by cbs. to see my complete conversation with beck, you can watch my new web show, it's called at katie couric, and you can find it cbsnews.com. coming up next, he's one of the most powerful members of congress.

>> he has been been convicted of and last week the new york times in a blaze with articles on charlie rangelxes report nothing on chris dodd who was a billion times more corrupt and one of the two men along with barney frank for the entire financial melt down. >> the double standard is a problem. if a conservative had done that -- >> with with an effective legise he is a failure as a governor. he blew the california kennedy senate thing. he slandered. >> he's a democrat. of course. >> he has been bumbling along as a guy who can't get 25 percent approval rating. lick lousier announced for the republicans he will challenge for the governor's seat. i think david patterson is an endangered -- >> you can weigh in at this juncture and say step aside. >> what about that aspect the president of the united states got himself involved in politics? >> i have no way of knowing the president got involved. they would look at the politics they campaign in states as he did for corzine in new jersey. they are going to do an analysis. david patterson is not the lieutenant governor running for governor or acci

neil: this comes in waves, as you know, earlier when charlie rangel was saying that americans have not gotten used to the fact that barack obama is president. and then david paterson saying that if he were not black, he would not be getting the bad headlines he was getting. what do you tell these politicians when they say things like that? >> i say to them, "pay your taxes, serve competently in office, do your job, and stop whining." we live in a country where the greatest entertainer in the country is oprah winfrey. the most powerful person in the country is barack obama, and you have these politicians who are making six-figure salaries and more running around, warning about how they are being treated and that their race is being considered as a factor -- wininhining. this is the greatest country in the world. they have more opportunity. why not make the most of it instead of whining about it? neil: he went on to say this, jimmy carter. >> racism still exists, and i think it has bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people, not just in the south but around the

congressman charlie rangel of new york for list of shame for second year in a row. currently under investigation for ethics violations after, among other things, failing to report millions of dollars in income on his financial disclosure form with the congress. and are we finally close to finding the missing body of jimmie hoffa? fbi agents continue to dig at a lumberyard in detroit. they won't comment on speculation the excavation is a renewed search for hoffa. the former teamster head disappeared back in 1975. he was legally declared dead seven years later. gretchen: before a quick time out. we showed you senior white house advisor axelrod claiming that dick -- dick morris for claiming that the health care will lead people in the cold. brian: dick morris joining us here. your response to david axelrod asking what you medical school did you go to. do you need to to understand what kind of impact health care will have on our country. >> my response to him is to say david, by the way, hello, he used to work for me when i hired him to work for clinton. david, you don'

. >> they represent the democrats and charlie rangel probably represents -- >> you can continue the debateer. >> there is no mainstream in any party anymore. >> gloria, alex, james, always good to see you. thanks. >> sure. >> when we come back, the big question, why do powerful men tend to say incriminating things on tape? we have seen it over and over again. tonight, it's a double dose. we have bernie madoff how explaining how he doesn't want to have the same coach. when will they ever learn? >>> interesting news today. >> campbell, here we go. coming out swinging today, the ethics investigation and the latest impeachment. to base the whole thing on media headlines. or you ought to just base it on political opponents accusations. >> all right. since sanford's extra marital afford with a brazilian woman was exposed, they have been pressing to find out how he used state money. today the california lawmaker who quit after getting caught on the mike and camera making sexually explicit remarks to a colleague. despite what it sounds like, let's listen >> the oi offense was engaging in inappropr

it bothered me when charlie rangel said they don't say "s" word a slur for hispanics or "n" word, a slurlacks anymore, except he used the actual words. they just cut taxes. >> larry: but you are angry at racism? you don't appear angry. >> larry, do you want me to be angry? >> larry: yeah, i do. i tell you something, somebody's anti-semitic, i'm angry. >> my father does not know who his father was. he grew up in the south, grew up in jim crowe south. this is now 2009. we have a black president, we've had back-to-back black secretaries of state. i'm grateful i live in america. and right now it's about hard work and accountability. i'm not going to go there where i don't see racism. >> larry: i'm just saying, someone's anti-semitic, i hate it. is it ever okay to heckle a president of the united states? i'll ask after the break. all around the world, men with erectile dysfunction have asked their doctors about cialis. ask your doctor if a cialis option is right for you because in addition to 36-hour cialis, there's another dosing option: cialis for daily use, a low-dose tablet you take every

even charlie rangel offered this angelic appraisal of president barack obama. >> who is our hero?ama? who is going to lead us out of poverty? barack obama! who is going to save the united states of america? barack obama! who is going to save the entire world? barack obama! who do we love? barack obama! glenn: ok. one of the networks is almost the church of obama the way they get chills up their leg over him. you have kids singing tunes about obama now to the tunes of "jesus loves me." the other song that they were singing was to the tune of "the battle hymn of the republic." ♪ hole he will, mr. president, we honor you today, hooray, hooray ♪ glenn: america, i have a question for you -- request do you think we're as powerful as we are roar have been? what did we do different than other countries? are we just superior human beings? no. it's because we recognized god's authority. it says so in our constitution. all men are -- our declaration of independence. "all men are endowed by their creator with certain inail alienable rights." so many other countries get it wrong. they believe

so my question to you is i think i heard earlier in the week that congressman charlie rangel is sortaying, cut it out. leave him alone. he's going to be okay. if that's true, how can that be? >> well, keep in mind the so-called gang of four in harlem, mike, in terms of rangel has a long-standing relationship with the governor's father. but i just want to point out that i have been told by two people with direct knowledge that claim that this also has a lot to do with the white house -- it's payback time as far as how it all went down with caroline kennedy. this is the governor that came in with great, great promise. good approval numbers. one can make a case that for a while he was on top of the world. but his indecisiveness, the caroline kennedy mess, it's been -- it just hasn't been good for david paterson at all. >> fred, i can understand that story line. but i don't buy it. given the fact that the governor becomes governor and like within a week, he's having a press conference announcing that both he and his wife have had extramarital affairs, immediately the thing goes off the t

you can't have michelle obama out there answering whether she's in favor of charlie rangel three new top tax brackets or in favor of baucus's 35% tax on health care plan that's worth more than $8,000 which the unions opposed because an $8,000 plan is not a lot of plan. there are too many particulars out there in the bills that you don't want her to have to address. now, hillary clinton did address those because she was an expert in the legislation. she had written her version of it. michelle obama doing the brush your teeth version of this is the only way to go. and risky. there's -- her numbers will go down from doing even that. she'll go from a 70% approval down to a 60% but she has some approval to spend here. >> talk of spending your approval possibly in the wrong place, what is this from senator grassley saying he resents the white house from calling him out and his word was, associating him with extreme claims about the end of life situation. even exposed to as much politics as i've been exposed to, this makes no sense. >> you haven't been exposed to chuck. he's been in 30 year

look at charlie rangel. >> we're talking about a personal insult here, calling the president a liar then then continuing on saying he's not going to back down. >> okay. if you want to go down that road, ed, i'd say, fine. look at senate majority leader harry reid. harry reid went on "meet the press" when mr. russert was still with us and accused president bush of not only being a liar but a loser. he said that on national television. he had the opportunity a year later to apologize and said i shouldn't have called him a loser but i stand by calling him a liar. >> you're right about that, ron. he was saying bush was lying about the facts. now, if mr. wilson is saying -- >> well -- >> no, that's the fact. >> i have a very strong contention, ed, with the fact, as i said to you, the congressman from north dakota had an amendment in the ways and means committee that would have ensured the holds in medicare and medicaid would be made absolutely certain we wouldn't have illegal aliens receiving benefits under the bill. >> the consensus claimed the house bill would use the house bill to provide

as charlie rangel said, i don't think he added a single vote with that speech.nk that speech was excellent, partisan, barack obama's best day of this thing. andrea, i think he made a mistake in this. he played his ace of trumps, i think he played it too early, i would have waited for this bill -- wait for the bill. >> he had to change the atmosphere though. >> he did turn it around, i agree. >> gain control. >> he turned all where he was just getting beat up all over, he turned around, stepped out front, in effect, scored a touchdown i think he did early. vin and i made, i think he has the horses to win this thing if they handle it right. and the key guys are the blue dogs. they are the guys tough satisfy, they are the guys seats at risk if they vote for this thing. >> vin, let me show you tim pawlenty on "morning joe" today and what he had to say about the cost control. >> both numbers, as you know, you just said are a complete crock, nobody believes them, you don't believe them, i don't even think the president's administration fully believes them, they are no

and charlie rangel, who's been very strong on this, and chairman of the ways and means committee standsand says we've got to do it this way, because that's what chairman always do. chairmen want to get a bill in the end and they will basically hold hands and say let's do it this way. >> and what happens then on the left and perhaps in the middle and to some degree on the right when a bill passes that doesn't have a public option and thus basically forces more people to buy over-the-counter insurance from insurance companies that are not seriously regulated because there is no public option? what do we have then? protests in the streets? >> and -- and does not provide universal coverage. what's been lost in this discussion all year is that none of the bills that have come out of any of the committee provide universal coverage. so in the end what the left would have been fighting for all year that supports and expands the business of the private insurance companies does not provide universal coverage falls short by 10, 15, possibly 20 million people. that's when we see the explosion that

you know there are a lot of members of congress who have a lot of explaining to do start with charlie rangel thachlt. >> i get it other people. >> talking about joe wilson here, right, contessa? >> wait a minute, james you went offtopic, too, talking about other things. >> about joe wilson. >> that's true. good point. let me just ask here for the breach of conduct here on the house floor, doug, should joe wilson apologize to his colleagues who were observing the form eighth, the civility of the moment? >> absolutely not. he has apologized to the president, to the vice president, as he said, to rahm emanuel immediately after speech. really focus on what is going on with health care. because president obama said that if this health care reform package these pushing passes that he owns it the reality is that we will all own it that is why we need a deep debate on this, not apologize nobody cares about anyways. >> let me tell you what president obama said when he was asked whether the south carolina congressman should apologize again, this time on the floor. >> this is part of what happens. it b

charlie rangel, one of the most influential african-american, chairman up on capitol hill, also fromk, has told the new york daily news he's not happy with the pressure on paterson and the white house should basically butt out. it's clear the white house is not going to. they didn't like the words. paterson's staff said, we didn't mean anything by that. we were simply stating the obvious. the white house said no. they immediately called our reporters to push back and say, hey, we have a great record of passing legislation. >> just really quickly, why does the white house want him out so bad? just because he's tarring the democratic party there? >> and they don't think he has the best chance of winning. at the end of the day, the president and his staff want a powerful democratic coalition at the national and state level. if they think he's a loser, they don't want him in there, they want him out. the bush administration has done this. most administrations do this because they want to police department up the party from the bottom up. >> speaking of a former governor, sarah palin from

the concern today is will there be a fight in the house between those members like charlie rangel whoout, who like paterson and don't want to feel his pressure, and those people thinking about politics and thinking about their own livelihood. they want to keep the seats. if they have the drag at the top of the ticket, they're worried they could lose several points. in a tight race in a bad environment, that could be the difference between having the seat and not having the seat. that's why it makes sense for the white house to get involved in races like this because they understand the ramifications of having a smaller majority in the house or senate. >> coming up on our show, we're going to show the first network interview with the acorn guy, the filmmaker who kind of went and blew this whole thing up with acorn dressed up as a pimp. acorn is fighting back. what are they doing? >> it's not an easy job for them. defending acorn is like defending john edwards. they're basically doing a media blitz. hey, we apologize for a couple of these isolated incidents. they have their lobbying tea

lot of our viewers watching, like nancy pelosi, saying that the cia lies repeatedly, and that charlie rangelis in all sorts of tax trouble, but faces no penalties? nancy pelosi allows him to continue on in the ways and means committee? decorum, what a joke. >> certainly, i would say to you that the house of representatives, the republicans are the democrats, does not inspire confidence in myself or anyone else in their ability to discipline their own membership. what i am saying is that perhaps this could be the beginning of a process. if they had sanctioned joe wilson, perhaps in the future that will be the standard that applies to anyone else. if we just let it go again, this process will continue forever. megyn: ever the optimist. thank you. >> [laughter] thank you. bill: we have seen the pictures taken by the upgraded hubble telescope, they are fascinating. we have not heard from [unintelligible] until today. he is waiting in the wings. check it out. achoo! (announcer) what are you going to miss when you have an allergy attack? achoo! (announcer) benadryl is more effective than claritin

gretchen: charlie rangel has weighed in. he said don't give this press at all. big news involved at all. it seems it's being deflected. steve: they have essentially picked the next governor of new york the white house has. brian: i like the fact that the administration didn't care what color of his skin. i like the fact they didn't bring race into it i can't believe they would tell someone like steve israel out in suffolk county don't run for senate in new york or carol malone i don't want you running either. they probably aren't happy that joe sestak in running for the senate seat in pennsylvania. he said the heck with that i'm running anyway. then they do. this the fact that he is a black governor and the administration doesn't care about that i actually like that. steve: showing they are running the federal government and states as well. gretchen: headline force a monday. urgent and confidential report just released this morning on the war in afghanistan. it is a desperate plea for more troops from the top commander on the ground there general stanley mcchrys

charlie rangel has been there for 38 years. commerce has become a campground for the ruling elite.eight years he has been there. there's no one there to hold him to account. there is no credible person anywhere that will tell you congress can investigate itself on either side see three let's go back eight years and put this in perspective. i don't remember it the same sort of thing happening to this level, this sort of egregious level in eight years that republicans like congress. by ron? >> tobacco bring up tom delay. they will bring up either perceived insults are sluts. these people are very petty. if you or i had $1 million like charlie rick husband, we are in jail. the average american would be in jail for what he's done. then i go to joe wilson and six days later they rebuke them. you cannot compare the two credibly speak during which it happened to charlie wrangle? >> he should be thrown out and he needs to be in jail. this is tax evasion. he's stealing from the government they won't do that. they don't have enough leadership in congress between the question is whether he vi

i think she's referring to charlie rangel. are a few spoken words more significant than the actions of someone who so blatantly breaks the law. by nature i'm a pretty cheap guy. but joe wilson ticks me off so bad last night i couldn't wait to boot up my computer, logon to rob miller's website and send him 100 bucks. denny writes being a republican is punishment enough. you didn't see your e-mail here, go to my blog at cnn.com/caffertyfile. look for yours there among hundreds of others. mark sanford, still ahead in the "cafferty file." back over to you. >> we'll be watching. >>> to our viewers, you're in "the situation room." happening now, republican leaders are still rips the president's speech on health care reform. even his reading of a poignant letter from the late senator ted kennedy is being called a tool. i'll speak about that with the republican chairman. >>> his top rival accuses the afghan president hamid karzai of massive election fraud and suggests his government is tied to the opium trade. i'll speak with dr. abdu

brian, charlie rangel forgot to declare about half of his wealth.had a year-long investigation on him. you know this guy. what is happening? >> there are two different standards for democrats and republicans. i know that sounds paranoid, but there is a reality -- come on. somebody has to look into this and do something about it. it is an enormous amount of money. steve: the double standard -- you feel that it this was a republican, republican leadership would tell him to step down from his chairmanship until this was resolved. >> i do know that it would be on the front page of the "new york times" and every democrat would be calling for someone to do something about it. gretchen: instead he is calling for tougher rules for people who do not pay their taxes. hypocrisy at its best. >> i do not know what the president tried to accomplish last night. there was no specifics that emerged from the speech. we have no idea how many people he is going to cover. he is going to do some kind of medical malpractice reform, but no specifics on how. somehow he is n

chairman committees, george miller of education and labor, henry waxman of energy and commerce, and charlie rangelf ways and means it? >> she has had her hands full bringing these three chairmaen, who for obvious reasons come from different backgrounds, constituencies themselves, different jurisdictional interests. and randall for the tax committee obviously has his own ideas about how to raise money for things. and it would be different from the ideas of chairman miller of the education and labor committee. from the get go on this, a locy -- nancy pelosi has put a lot of commitment in to bring those three forward and moving them forward in lockstep on this. she did not want to create a situation where the chairman are squabbling on -- among themselves. that has worked out pretty well without too many problems. that is the house of representatives with the way that the house rules are structured. the majority party has a bit easier road to get things through. >> all three committees have passed the exact same version of age -- of hr3200, is that correct? >> nou, there are differences in these bill

for everyone to say that everything is racial -- even charlie rangel is talking about race. we have to get on top of this thing. i wish we could have more checks and balances because we are listening to a congressman say something on your channel, and then on and cnn they say something else. host: we try our best, but having you, other viewer, is an advantage. from the money section in "usa today" -- that is inside "usa today." michael from huntington, new york. caller: thank you for letting me speak. i would like to bring up the fact that the supreme court will be taken up a case of the corporation which put out a movie during the election on hillary clinton. this is an important point. be aware. if the supreme court makes a similar decision like it made in 1978, when it decided $1, one vote, that money was equivalent to speech, now they are going to decide if they can decide in favor of corporations have an equal rights to speak as people. that means corporations can put anything they want on you, and no one can say anything about it. it would be a takeover of the country

charlie rangel specifically i think has had a terrible summer. against him because of the charges of unethical behave yore, and i -- i think speaker pelosi may be driven to have to take his chairmanship away so he's had a tough one and i would say not a politician but the families of the victims of the pan am flight that went down obviously had a very rough summer when their killers, the killer of their family members got set free and any politicians in britain and perhaps the united states who get caught up in the aftermath will have a bad fall. >> donna, losers? >> also i said the supreme leader in iran who put down the demonstrators using violence, i call them a loser. i also believe the bitter movement which continues to challenge the president's citizenship, i consider them to be a loser. i also had honorable mention the judge who released that prisoner to go home to libya. that was also a veried about moment as well. i put as a winner judge sonia sotomayor. she's my hero, and i thought that was one of the best things that happened this summ

and in "the washington post quoted asking charlie rangel to resign his senate committee chairmanship.he president is addressing a joint session. we will have live coverage as he tries to outline details on his health care policies. the phone lines are open. we will also accept your tweets and e-mails. the president will flesh out his vision in a speech. aides say that the president will use the speech to add more specifics to his vision to overhaul the nation's health- care system. meanwhile, the store from the front page of "the wall street journal quality -- obama re- launches the health bid. -- the front page of "the wall street journal." the overall under discussion would require most individuals to buy insurance, a federally operated exchange, where individuals and small businesses could buy insurance and tax credits to help people buy the plants. -- to buy the plans. and also, this morning a front- page as the president heads off to camp david. he will spend the labor day weekend there. he is trying to resuscitate his push for health-care overhaul and has decided to address a ra

. >> yesterday, charlie rangel said, that by holding this bill to $900 billion, the president was going make it very difficult to help the middle class people purchase insurance. that is limiting the size of subsidies carried and he is actually hurting the cause of reaching this on the bill because the number is too low. rockefeller also said, that the bill, -- that this is a tax increase on the middle class. and that they do not have the subsidies for the mandate. first of all, i wonder about your response? >> his writ -- his question is better directed to max baucus. >> what about the claim that $900 billion -- >> i think that if you go back and you look at what the -- the way that the president has spoken about health insurance reform, through the campaign, there was a debate that many of you recall about health insurance, in the primary. first and foremost, the president spoke about health care affordability. he had no desire for an additional burden that the uninsured cannot use, to get health insurance. this would not make a lot of sense from any perspective. and i would simply hi

it was reported that house speaker nancy pelosi will let representative charlie rangel not report federal assets. democratic aides said its baker policy will not pressure mr. riegle to resign his post or publicly censured him on less the house ethics committee sounds tip -- finds him guilty on ethics charges. later today on the c-span network, last sunday, japanese voters replaced the party that has been in power there since 1955. at a forum today, we will consider what the new majority government will mean for asia and the u.s.. it is a discussion moderated by cbs chief washington correspondent and "face the nation" kirk bob schieffer. a review of the health-care debate in congress later this week with highlights of house and senate committees and analysis from capitol hill reporters. on sunday, a comparison of health care systems from around the world with former washington post reporter tr reid. >> as the debate over health care continues, cspan's healthcare hub is a key resource. you can go online and what's the latest events including town hall meetings and share your thoughts on the

chairman committees, george miller of education and labor, henry waxman of energy and commerce, and charlie rangelways and means it? >> she has had her hands full bringing these three chairmaen, who for obvious reasons come from different backgrounds, constituencies themselves, different jurisdictional interests. and randall for the tax committee obviously has his own ideas about how to raise money for things. and it would be different from the ideas of chairman miller of the education and labor committee. from the get go on this, a locy -- nancy pelosi has put a lot of commitment in to bring those three forward and moving them forward in lockstep on this. she did not want to create a situation where the chairman are squabbling on -- among themselves. that has worked out pretty well without too many problems. that is the house of representatives with the way that the house rules are structured. the majority party has a bit easier road to get things through. >> all three committees have passed the exact same version of age -- of hr3200, is that correct? >> nou, there are differences in these bills

reid, the majority leader of the senate, he maybe listened to charlie rangel, the gentleman who chairs the ways and means committee, possibly he is listening to henry waxman, the chairman of the committee that i serve on, energy and commerce, or maybe his friend from california, george miller, who chairs the education and labor committee in the house. and maybe he's listening to chris dodd, the senator from connecticut who chairs the health, education pension committee, the h.e.p. kept, in the united states senate. but he is not listening to the american people. we don't -- we've come to not expect, my colleagues, him to listen to the loyal minority and to give the minority truly an opportunity to participate on the front end of having input in these very important bills. we're talking about 17% of our economy is health care and john fleming and phil gingrey together probably have 70 years of clinical experience, mr. speaker, in the practice of medicine and i'm talking about where you see patients, i'm not talking about writing papers or teaching at some ivory tower medical facility. i